Today,
Rosalie Hall provides a comprehensive range of early intervention,
prevention and treatment services meeting the needs of young families
from Scarborough and across the Toronto Region.
In order to address the range of needs of young parents and their
children, a number of other organizations deliver services in
partnership and at
Rosalie Hall:
•
Aisling Discoveries Child and Family Centre, Infant Child Treatment Program,
• Coordinated residential services in cooperation with Humewood House,
and Massey Centre for Women,
• Jean Tweed Centre, Pathways to Healthy Families, addiction services,
• Scarborough Agencies Sexual Abuse Treatment Program,
• Scarborough Housing Help Centre, housing search and outreach to young
parents,
• Toronto District and Toronto Catholic District School Boards,
• Toronto Public Health, nutrition counselling, and
• Psychiatry and Treatment services in cooperation with The Scarborough
Hospital
The East Toronto Children's Services Network is currently based at Rosalie
Hall, providing service coordination and planning in cooperation with
the range of providers serving children, youth and families in the Scarborough
communities.
Our
Heritage
Rosalie Hall shares in a heritage of
more than 150 years of service by the Misericordia Sisters
to young single pregnant woman, their children, and families – with
more than 85 years of service to Toronto communities. We
are part of an international family providing health and
social
services as a living expression of the compassionate mission
of the Misericordia Sisters.
Our Vision
We envision young single women and men, their children
and families leading healthy, meaningful and productive lives.
Our Mission
Rosalie Hall, with compassion and respect, assists young parents in need
and their children to realize their potential through the provision of
a wide range of community, residential, educational and child development
services.
The History of Rosalie Hall
Rosalie Hall has served the Toronto communities for 90 years. In 1914,
with a deplorable lack of suitable maternity and infant care of single
women and their children in Ontario, the Misericordia Sisters started
the St. Mary’s Infant Home on Bond Street. To accommodate the growing
need for their services, the Sisters then purchased two properties on Jarvis
Street. One became the St. Mary’s Hospital and the other became
a home for young mothers and their babes. The hospital was used for maternity
care, but in 1925, was modified to accommodate medical and surgical treatments
as well.
In July of 1952, the sisters purchased 28 acres of land at the corner of
Lawrence Avenue and McCowan Road. In 1956, both the hospital and the home
were moved to Scarborough, now known as The Scarborough Hospital and Rosalie
Hall. |